{"id":14412,"date":"2017-08-08T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=14412"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:29:15","slug":"jane-burn-reviews-grant-tarbards-loneliness-is-the-machine-that-drives-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jane-burn-reviews-grant-tarbards-loneliness-is-the-machine-that-drives-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Burn reviews Grant Tarbard’s ‘Loneliness is the Machine that Drives the World’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grant Tabard\u2019s Loneliness is the Machine that Drives the World <\/em>led me into it with immediate interest \u2013 the contents page alone is full of such curiosities such as Snuff of the Disappeared<\/em> and Beaks. <\/em>I knew from this that I would want to read more.<\/p>\n

This is a collection which deals with illness, horror and death.<\/p>\n

\u2018My leg is split in two,
\nclamps keeping the exposed pink tendons<\/p>\n

of the supple flesh peeled \u2013
\nthe shadow of my emptied skin\u2019<\/p>\n

Throughout, he is unwilling to \u2018admit to devastation\u2019 \u2013 you do feel beneath it all his irrepressible love of words, loved ones and life, there is darkness within but it has a cast of magic upon it. Musical and satisfyingly wordsome, the poems roam from lilies to kidneys, sperm to sun, mulberry to cellophane, spud gun to sparrows. The world around us upsets as it uplifts.<\/p>\n

\u2018I will mend you with the brushstrokes of my words\u2019<\/p>\n

It is a collection of remembrances \u2013 you strongly feel Tabard\u2019s belief in the survival of love. Love bites you, life burns you but the poems suggest an inevitable going on and a stubborn will to go on noticing the important little things. The poems have a hallucinogenic quality \u2013 a dreamlike, between states feel. You get the feeling Tabard is trying to stay above water \u2013 he is floating and the poems are cast as life<\/p>\n

He ends the collection in measured consideration of small seeming but powerful moments.<\/p>\n

\u2018The mindfulness of breathing,
\nnow is the eternity.\u2019<\/p>\n

Also, I now really, really want a Faberge clothes peg.<\/p>\n

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Order your copy of Grant Tarbard’s Loneliness is the Machine that Drives the World<\/em> published Platypus Press by here: http:\/\/platypuspress.co.uk\/lonelinessisthemachinethatdrivestheworld<\/a><\/p>\n

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